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Stav is a Norse martial art that incorporates the use of mysticla runes in its training. It can be said that it is a mind and body training that resembles Tai Chi Chuan. Beginners of the art are taught stances based on the runes. It was once only practised by the Hoskol people, and was part of their educational system (including warfare, crafts, and medicine) so that the tribe could survive and adapt to the harsh environment. This art features linear movements of attack and defence that resembles a kata. Stav practitioners begin by using staffs or cudgels but may in time progress to use battle-axes, swords, wands or even to the bare-handed stage.

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